(3o) HIStORr of the SOCIETY 



w.Tjtier^Efq; H. Ohfer'vatiQns on the VISIOK, a Poem firjl publijhed in 



Ramsay's Evergreen. 



Thefe obfervations, which vindicate Allan Ramsay's title to 

 the poems in queftion, were pubHfhed in the before-mentioned 

 volume of the Antiquarian Tranfacflions in 1792. 



III. An Account of the fafhionahle Amufements and Entertain- 

 ments of Edinburgh in the lajl Century^ with the Plan of 

 a grand Concert of Mufic \_performed there'] on St Cecilia* s 

 Day 1695. 



Mr Tytler was likewife the author of a paper in the Loun- 

 ger, No. 16. *' Defeds of modern Female Education in teaching the 

 Duties of a Wife,'''' 



On all Mr Tytler's compolitions the charader of the Man 

 is ftrongly imprefTed, which never, as in fome other inftances, 

 is in the fmallefl degree contradi(5ted by or at variance with the 

 chara(fler of the Author. He wrote what he felt, on fubjecfls 

 which he felt, on fubjedls relating to his native country, to the 

 arts which he loved, to the times which he revered. A zealous 

 Scotfman, a keen mufician, an old man with his youthful re- 

 membrances warm in his mind, he wrote on the hiftory of 

 Scotland, on mufic, and on the amufements of former times in 

 Edinburgh ; and I confefs, that from a knowledge of this cir- 

 cumftance, I read his works with an intereft which I fliould not 

 feel, if I confidered them as flowing from a pen which was the 

 inftrument of the author's ingenuity rather than of his heart. 



His heart indeed was in every thing he wrote, or fliid, or 

 did. He had, as his family and friends could warmly atteft, 

 all the kindnefs of benevolence : he had its anger too ; for be- 

 nevolence is often the parent of anger. There v^ras nothing 



neutral 



